Dominatrices Unionize and Hit Back After Raids

After a number of vice squad crackdowns on Manhattan S&M clubs, some outraged dominatrices are bonding together to defend their profession, which they say has been wrongly maligned as prostitution. The Post sent a reporter over to Dungeon Alley (a cluster of S&M clubs in Midtown) and Chelsea's Le Salon De Sade, where the dominatrices "were dressed to the hilt with no one to flog. " De Sade's owner Mistress Johanna says, "It's never been worse. Business is down 70 percent. We've had all these busts, and now the economy is out of control. The uncertainty is torturing us." Investigators say that the raided clubs were essentially prostitution houses, but a lawyer hired by over a dozen dominatrices and dungeon owners insists "everyone was operating under the belief that what they were doing was legal." Besides retaining an attorney, the group is forming a union and even a political action committee (DomPAC!) to lobby lawmakers for legal protection.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 6, 2008 10:15 AM

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HenryKrinkle

I should protest the purveyors of filth and indecency. They who complain about business being slow... Fuck them and the goddamn eunuchs who visit them. It is liberals like yourself who want to turn a blind eye to tax cheats, pimps, and prostitutes. Oh let them be. Why should I? But you want to focus on my karmic future-get a fucking grip.

smokedgouda

HenryKrinkle: what's more genius, me pointing out your karmic future or your poetry: "hey #6 go fuck yourself huh? you liberal piece of shit".

What's really clear is that thou dost protest too much.

Felix Hoenikker

The economy tanking is probably hurting them more than the vice raids.

smokedgouda

HenryKrinkle: you think dominatrices are bad but karma is a bitch.

Brainwash

Reminds me of that documentary, "Live Nude Girls Unite!"

jaycjay

"The uncertainty is torturing us."

But are they getting off on it?

Presumably not, since they're usually the ones doing the torturing.

HenryKrinkle

hey #6 go fuck yourself huh? you liberal piece of shit

virgilstarkwell

4,

well, aren't you just a beautiful ray of sunshine this morning?

moron.

MFer

Unionize? What will we do if the dominatrices go on strikes? And what sorts of inflatable rats outside non-union S&M shop?

"The uncertainty is torturing us."

But are they getting off on it?

Splicer

Who are they harming that doesn't want to be harmed? Another example of a police force that, unable to fight real crime, goes after victimless "crimes" to look good to the brass.

Note to NYPD: Less S&M raid and tasering of disturbed people, more doing your job correctly.